http://www.rochellenews-leader.com Sports RSS Feed Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:08:03 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=4012 ROCHELLE - Olivia Caron will be Olivia Karon soon. Surrounded by family, friends and coaches Thursday morning at RTHS, Caron signed a National Letter of Intent to play softball for the Kishwaukee College Kougars next year. She is set to graduate from high school this spring Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:17:44 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=4011 ROCHELLE - Shots suddenly started falling. The defense improved. For a three-week period during late December and early January, the RTHS boys basketball team looked like it was ready to make another run deep into March. Then everything fizzled down the stretch. After winning six Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:16:46 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=4004 YOGI Berra once observed, "You can learn a lot by watching." After watching his teammates play game after game last season, Micah McCulloch learned something about himself. He doesn't like watching. Now that McCulloch's labrum injury that kept him out all of last season is Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:39:00 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=4003 ELGIN - The Royals saved their best for last. Trailing to Prairie Knolls by five at the start of the fourth quarter, RMS rallied to force overtime and went on to win 22-20 on Monday afternoon. It was the Royals' first win of the season. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:37:18 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=4002 BY TODD FROEMLING Sports Editor ROCHELLE - The RTHS wrestling team's last dual meet of the 2009-10 season was in January. Head coach Russell Vanderheyden is still expecting another win. "Technically, we should be one better. One of the teams we faced used a Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:36:36 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=3991 MAPLE PARK - The desire returned. The accuracy was still missing. After their worst showing of the year three nights earlier, the Hubs bounced back with their most inspired effort of the season in Monday night's 54-48 regional loss to Hampshire. No amount of Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:16:41 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=3981 ROCHELLE - Thirty seconds into the third quarter of Friday night's basketball game between Rochelle and DeKalb, the fire alarm inexplicably went off in the RTHS gym. The Barbs then went on to score 22 of the next 24 points on their way to a Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:51:08 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=3977 Steward won the varsity Meridian Conference Basketball Tournament at RMS last week. Abby Gould scored 19 points in the Eagles' 39-34 win against Kings in the championship game. Ceara Johnson scored 10, Tracey Ellis scored eight and Kelsey Burton scored two. Pictured above (from left Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:46 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=3967 MALTA - Stephanie Benninger became the first Kishwaukee College athlete to win the NJCAA Leaders for Life Student-Athlete of the Week honor. The sophomore captain of the women's basketball team is seen by her peers as a leader and a true role model. However, Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:24 -0600 http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.rochellenews-leader.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=73&story_id=3966 CHAMPAIGN - CJ Navarro had never wrestled in a match like the one he found himself in on Saturday afternoon in the semifinals of the IHSA Class 2A state tournament. Needing an escape against Marmion Academy's Nico Jimenez to advance to the 171-pound championship match, Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:38:47 -0600